... in the region ofthe target volume should be carefully modelled since the mammary gland has a quite complex structure as well Aim ofthe present study is the assessment ofthe dosimetric impact ... from the HU values read in the CT dataset ofthe patients Table reports the correspondence matrix for the segmentation from density to human tissues for the two versions of Acuros XB used in the ... Lung_OUT (being Lung the entire lung structure, that is also the union of Lung_IN and Lung_OUT) Lung_IN is the lung portion falling geometrically inside the projection ofthe edges ofthe two tangential...
... demonstrates the simultaneous impactof financial management practices and financial aspects on SME profitability In addition, the research study provides a model of SME profitability, in which profitability ... increase profitability Effective financial management can save expensive ofthe business This lead to following hypothesis: H1: Profitability of SMEs is negatively related to the cash ratio H2: Profitability ... determining the financial position ofthe firm The firm is considered 18 financially weak when its profitability is sliding or the profitability is weak compared to other firms in the industry In their...
... areas of financial management practices, financial aspects, and profitability of SMEs and to build a model oftheimpactof financial management practices and financial aspects on SME profitability ... Section 2.8 provides the model ofimpactof financial management and financial aspects on SME profitability Lastly, section 2.9 develops a model oftheimpactof financial management practices and ... contribution of SMEs as well as the recent promotion and supporting policy on developing SMEs, this research study theImpactof Financial Management and Financial Aspects on the Profitability of Small...
... quality or the safety ofthe food? • (Similar to above) In general, are people in China concerned about such matters as the nutritional value ofthe food or the contents ofthe food they buy (for ... to the food)? FQ (This question might include: the packaging and the origin ofthe food) • What are the possible results if all (or the majority of) the people were not very concerned about the ... about the contents ofthe food they eat? (假设的问题) • (Similar to above) What could happen if all (or the majority of) the people were not very concerned about the contents ofthe food they eat? Food...
... Austin non -profit that advocates for affordable housing, retained Civic Economics to analyze the economic impactofthe 2006 commitment and to consider the prospective impactof another round of bonds ... of these costs, we elected to take a conservative approach b The costs of these supportive services are here treated as positive in terms of local economic impact There exists a strong body of ... 3.6 THE ECONOMIC IMPACTOF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING MAY 2012 Map Civic Economics THE ECONOMIC IMPACTOF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING THE ECONOMIC IMPACT...
... events from the origin ofthe wastewater to the consumption ofthe produce (e.g the farm-to-fork approach ofthe HAPPC method in food safety); • the design of a combination of health risk management ... personal-care products and pharmaceuticals The impacts of these are wide-ranging In the north east of Australia, run-off of agricultural herbicides caused the loss of 30 km2 of mangrove between 1999 and 2002 ... 2010) The impacts of eutrophication can result in profound environmental change and impactthe ecological integrity of aquatic systems e.g Agricul43 tural run-off exacerbating the spreading of dead...
... program to offset the CO2 emitted from the production of our hybrid vehicles in the U.S The purchase price ofthe offset is applied to a project that reduces or sequesters the emission of CO2 elsewhere ... recovered in the sales price Third, the GHG footprint ofthe in-use phase of light duty vehicles must be measured on a well-to-wheels basis, that is, the total emissions from the production ofthe original ... senior management, the Office ofthe Chairman and Chief Executive (OCCE) as well as the Environmental and Public Policy Committee ofthe Board of Directors What you will read in the following pages...
... is the relevance ofthe education to the professional future of a person Universities need to strengthen the causality between an education and a professional future, and given the nature ofthe ... are “working in the trenches” of building the web Most ofthe people in this latter segment of responders came to the survey by invitation because they are on the email list ofthe Pew Internet ... other tech and science publications, said, The key challenge ofthe next five years—I say the because ofthe importance of education for the entire global labor force and the importance of...
... native ofthe same age and gender The overall fiscal effect of immigration is found positive, under the assumption that the age and fiscal characteristics of future immigrants resemble those ofthe ... over time due to the aging of populations In the following, we will apply the method of generational accounting in order to evaluate the fiscal impactof immigrants in Austria The method has been ... that is, the present value of their taxes paid less their benefits received over their lifetime For previous applications of generational accounting on the estimation of immigrants’ fiscal impacts...
... sense, since in either case the economic impact on the state and, thus, the size ofthe state's economy, is the same After all, the source oftheimpact is the new job (an expansion ofthe economic ... 1) The Economic Impactofthe University of Northern Iowa on the State of Iowa Cedar Falls, IA: Department of Economics, The University of Northern Iowa Butler, T E (1980) An Estimate ofthe ... for the position: one is a graduate of a local university and the other is a lifetime resident of another state According to the skill-base approach, if the firm hired the local graduate, then the...
... incurred as a result of its use The designations employed and the presentation ofthe material in this overview not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part ofthe World Health ... society and the private sector with key economic insights needed to help reduce the growing burden of NCDs: • A global analysis ofthe economic impactof NCDs by the World Economic Forum and the Harvard ... The content of this report stems from the work published in two separate reports, one led by the World Economic Forum and the Harvard School of Public Health, and the other developed by the...
... estimates ofthe number of cases in the category (‘n’) and the average cost for that category The product is the total cost (eg the wage rate for lost earnings multiplied by the average number of days ... (effects) of two or more courses of action Deadweight loss: is the loss of consumer and producer surplus, as a result ofthe imposition of a distortion to the equilibrium (society preferred) level of ... the first study that established the prevalence of chronic pain in a general sample ofthe Australian adult population, and one ofthe largest reported in the literature (Blyth et al, 2001) The...
... mainly on the theoretical impactof this innovation on the creation of new firms and products, on the empirical evidence about theimpactof its introduction for the European economy and on the implications ... and in the creation of new firms through the stock market The number of firms follows the equation of motion: where N E , t is the number of new firms and is the exogenous rate of exit The real ... decreasing in the number of firms The latter follows the equation of motion: Nt (1 ) Nt N E,t where N E , t is the number of new firms and is the rate of business destruction The real value of a firm...
... published on the responsibility ofthe Secretary-General ofthe OECD The opinions expressed and arguments employed herein not necessarily reflect the official views ofthe Organisation or ofthe governments ... and magnitude They are of concern to governments because of (i) the negative impact that they can have on innovation, (ii) the threat they pose to the welfare of consumers and (iii) the substantial ... apparent to the consumer The size ofthe secondary market depends in large part on the difference in the price ofthe counterfeit or pirated article from the genuine item There is likely to be virtually...
... quantified the direct impactof ConnectKentucky as the intervening factor in Kentucky Additionally, the paper extrapolates this impact to other states to quantify the potential national impactof pending ... ConnectKentucky impact on adoption Applying the growth rate ofthe nation to the starting point in the KY time series demonstrates that had Kentucky performed similarly to the rest ofthe country in terms of ... estimate the direct availability economic impact for Kentuckians ofthe increased growth in broadband adoption It then extrapolates from these results to estimate the potential economic impact to the...
... structure ofthe Global Insights model, it likely understates the negative impactof military spending relative to other models The next section of this paper describes the key projections ofthe Global ... Budget Office produce its own projections ofthe economic impactof a sustained increase in defense spending The Economic Impactofthe Iraq War and Higher Military Spending Introduction The Iraq ... model Other models will show somewhat different projections, but it is unlikely that the direction ofthe long-term impact on any ofthe key variables will be different In fact, because ofthe structure...
... Look, the public benefits from our products They use them and they get jobs Part ofthe price of this benefit is theimpact we have on the environment That should be born by the public, not the ... policy The scores across each ofthe policy areas were then summed Since the 1982 and 1990 lists were scaled differently by their respective creators the scores for each period I standardized them ... say, the effects of coffee drinking on heart disease, they must take into account other factors that might influence their results For example, they may “control for” differences among the study...
... otherwise noted, are in terms ofthe difference from the baseline scenario Therefore familiarity with this scenario allows the reader to better judge the magnitude ofthe economic impacts ofthe ... simple example of opportunity cost is choosing between buying a book or a movie ticket The choice of one implies the loss ofthe other: the opportunity cost In the case of our analysis, the opportunity ... different question, the answering of which is the privilege and responsibility ofthe people of Oklahoma 13 V Results and Analysis As mentioned in the previous section, the impacts of Oklahoma’s higher...
... presentation ofthe results ofthe analysis; The discussion ofthe results including a brief discussion on the sensitivity ofthe forecast to the assumptions in the model Linkages between disease and the ... and the full-income models to explore the economic impactof chronic diseases are rare, despite the burden that they pose to countries and regions The few studies that have explored theimpactof ... computed by the model and the GBD projected estimates Theimpact on the estimates is subtracted out ofthe estimates of lost income Model assumptions The characteristic model assumptions for the simple...